Nonhuman agencies in the twenty-first-century Anglophone novel / Yvonne Liebermann, Judith Rahn, Bettina Burger, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Liebermann, Yvonne, editor.

Rahn, Judith, editor.

Burger, Bettina, editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Technology in literature.

Biotechnology in literature.

Agent (Philosophy) in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1. Introduction: Narrating the Nonhuman

Section I: Nonhuman Poetics: Agency of Literary Forms

2. Forms of Agency, Agency of Forms: Reading and Teaching More-than-Human Fictions

3. Nonhuman Agencies in and of Literature

4. Deontologising the Nonhuman: Arthur Gordon Pym, Contemporary Literature, and the Limits of the Human.-Section II: Negotiating the Human in the Light of the Nonhuman

5. Anthropogenesis: Ian McEwans Fictions of the Human

6. Arctic Snowmobilities: Encounters with Sled Dogs in Gary Paulsens Winterdance

7. Reframing the Nonhuman: Grievability and the Value of Life in Kazuo Ishiguros Never Let Me Go

8. Hopeless Necromantics: Decomposition and Transcorporeal Love in Jim Craces Being Dead

Section III: Imagining Biocentric Communities

9. The Gender Politics of Trees

10. "Mycorrhizal Multiplicities" : Mapping Collective Agency in Powerss The Overstory

11. The Climate Crisis and Affective Nonhuman Encounters: Ali Smiths Autumn (2016) and Jon McGregors Reservoir 13 (2017)

12. Postcolonial Fictions of the Anthropocene: Tracing Nonhuman Agency in Shubhangi Swarups Latitudes of Longing

Section IV: Negotiating Reality: Approaching the Nonhumans Inescapable Alterity

13. Cthulhu Calling: Weird Intimacy and Estrangement in the Anthropocene

14. "Just a Surface" : Anamorphic Perspective and Nonhuman Narration in Jeff VanderMeers The Strange Bird

15. "All Life Matters, or None does" Connecting Human and Nonhuman Worlds in Ambelin Kwaymullinas The Tribe Series.

Notes:

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund.

ISBN:

9783030794422

3030794423

Publisher Number:

99988910530

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